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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Mistake Risk Running
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON

Dream Gears Wake Up
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
BEN ELTON

Advice Looks Novel
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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Beens Comedy Instinct
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish
I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Nice People Thinking
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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Being Love Lucky Writing
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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Facts Giving Kind
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTON

First Little People

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

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